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On Every Tide - The making and remaking of the Irish world (Paperback)
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On Every Tide - The making and remaking of the Irish world (Paperback)
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On Every Tide is an immensely impressive, authoritative history of
the Irish diaspora. Calling on thirty years of research, Sean
Connolly broadens out the conventional stereotypes of the
downtrodden masses fleeing oppression and starvation, and looks at
the individual stories and local forces that propelled individuals
and families and communities of Irish to come over to England, or
cross the Atlantic, or go much further afield to South Africa,
Australia and elsewhere. Irish migration happened so far in advance
of the other mass migrations from Europe, and in such great
numbers, that they had dug in to the local economies, planted
themselves at the centre of politics and policing, and stamped
their identities indelibly on New York, Boston, Sydney and
elsewhere before all those other nationalities turned up en masse.
Inevitably they took with them all the divisions - religion, class,
status - from their homeland and in many cases replicated them
where they arrived. But alongside the export of street politics,
sectarianism and militant trade unionism there are the energetic
businessmen, famous public-spirited dynasties and generations of
enfranchised women finding the kind of freedom they couldn't
achieve in Ireland. It's a complex and fascinating picture,
animated for us though a multitude of stories. The book follows the
story through the great nineteenth century famines and into the
twentieth century, where the question of Irish emigrant identity
becomes a lot more opaque: intermarriage and global travel and the
mythologizing of Ireland lead to far more people claiming an Irish
identity around the world than have actual roots there. The book
plays directly into the wider debates about migration that are
swirling around now, as well as offering a unique and distinctive
view of 200 years of Irish history.
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Imprint: |
Abacus
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Sean Connolly
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Dimensions: |
198 x 126 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
496 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-349-14278-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-349-14278-5 |
Barcode: |
9780349142784 |
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